Gorilla Bush

By D. Charles

Maybe I was too young to remember everything the first time I went with my dad on a weekend camping trip, but I knew what I saw. When no one believed me, I grew up determined, knowing that someday I would go back to search for the truth and prove myself. I never could have imagined that what I would discover in that dark, dense island jungle would change my life forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638813668

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First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2021

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Imagine this: Jungle as far as you can see and birds’ singing fill the air, then suddenly it gets quiet. Not a sound. No birds flying. No wind. Everything is perfectly still.

Then the bushes on the edge of a small clearing start shaking, and out steps a very large gorilla. He does not look happy. He looks around and sniffs the air and stares into a big dark tree covered in vines. He can tell there is something there—a pair of eyes open wide from within the vines. The gorilla sees and roars out loud before charging, then screams—

Wait, let me start from the beginning.

My name is Taylor. When I was younger, I talked my dad into bringing me along on one of his work trips. My dad was a conservationist; he did studies on plants and roots and stuff. This time, we were going to the jungle, and I couldn’t wait. I was so excited about all the animals I would see there.

It was a long trip. First, we flew in a jet to an island. From there, we got in a small four-seater plane and flew to a landing strip cleared in the middle of a dense jungle. It was a small patch of brown in a sea of jungle green.

When we landed, we met our guides. They loaded our gear into an old jeep and drove down a two-track road. The jungle became denser and denser, and the road became grown over until it disappeared entirely. We unloaded our